One of the main concerns for the cryptocurrency investing community over the last year was the ability of exchanges to handle the huge influx of new traders into the ecosystem. Circle seems to have picked up on that sentiment, going on a hiring spree in order to improve the service at its recently acquired venue Poloniex. The move is meant to help the exchange expand globally, with an emphasis on serving Asian clients, while Circle continues to focus on the US market.

Evident Proof has launched an Ethereum blockchain and token-based service that turns data into immutable proof chains, transforming the way data is stored and providing indelible evidence that can be used to meet compliance, provenance and other data verification requirements. It will enable organisations and individuals to use immutable certificates as proof of events for risk analysis, dispute resolution, legal cases and others. Read more...

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Important announcement from the MoneyToken team to all Private Sale contributors

To provide assurance and protect Private Sale contributors from the falling market, the MoneyToken team announced that the token balance of all Private Sale participants will be reassessed at the end of the Token Sale, against the value of ether and other crypto assets at that point.Read more...

Car owners in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates will soon be able to track their vehicles entire life history, thanks to a government-backed blockchain platform.

What’s Your Car’s Story?

According to Arabian Business, the transportation authority of Dubai has unveiled plans to create a blockchain-based vehicle management system, allowing owners to track their vehicle throughout the duration of its existence — from its construction to its destruction.

Initially, the blockchain-powered platform will only track all cars in Dubai, but later stages will launch coverage for all cars in the United Arab Emirates — effectively unifying vehicle information across the sovereign state. Read more...

Nokia is launching a set of services, based on Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, and blockchain technologies, for economically and environmentally sustainable “smart cities.”

In the emerging IoT, billions of connected devices and sensors will generate vast amounts of data. Smart cities will need to retrieve, process, interpret and act upon real-time environmental data in a timely manner to ensure they remain sustainable environments for their citizens. To enable efficient IoT ecosystems for smart cities, it’s important to create new data monetization opportunities for IoT sensor network operators able to provide smart city authorities with real-time processed and analyzed environmental data.Read more...

At least two US institutions have requested that the IRS propose a definitive structure for taxing cryptocurrencies in the country.

As authorities see the lucrative appeal of virtual currencies, they also see that they can benefit from this wealth in some way, specifically through taxing crypto holders.

However, even though cryptocurrencies may only have been thrust into the mainstream spotlight last year, taxation queries are not as recent. According to CNBC, Tyson Cross, a US-based tax attorney, began assisting clients with declaring their digital currencies from as early as 2013.

His clientele has continued to grow, along with interest in the industry. Cross said: Read more...

At the end of 2017, signs that Bitcoin was making the jump from a currency used and held only by technology and decentralization enthusiasts to a mainstream asset started to hit the press.

The launch of Bitcoin futures on two of the major futures exchanges served up an opportunity for traders and investors that wanted to take a position in the cryptocurrency without having to buy and store bitcoins to do just that and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Bitcoin price (what’s grown to become a bellwether of industry health) soared. Read more...

LockChain, a company developing a technology and a marketplace for blockchain-powered booking of hotels and private property has announced in its official blog that it secured almost 100,000 hotels around the world reaching a strategic partnership with a number of companies in the accommodation sector.

This marks the first instance of decentralized technologies entering the hotel industry, which is currently estimated at around $ 500 billion.

The 0% commission marketplace offered by LockChain uses blockchain technology to remove intermediaries from the booking process, thus making a hotel stay cheaper for the guests. The hotels and private property owners, on the other hand, won’t have to pay considerable shares of their proceeds to centralized services like Booking.com or Airbnb, thus again making their rooms and premises more available to potential guests. Read more...

INFOCASH is a hotel – Restaurant management system and global payment platform that is on a mission to usher in a new era of digitalization to business and real life.

Infocash Ecosystem has maximized functions with the launch of ICC – a secure, borderless and decentralized cryptocurrency. Infocash aims to build a digital ecosystem for the future. ICC would lay a foundation and ecosystem, where we foresee massive growth and potential not just for 1 or 2 years from now, but for decades into the future. Infocash is leading the way in innovation and will be changing the economic social landscape of digital media and communications worldwide. Read more...

The PLAAK App ecosystem aims to give control back to Tradies and consumers alike by enabling Service Provider to choose their work hours and giving as much information as possible about the Service Provider to the consumer; allowing both parties to make the best choice for their unique requirements. The included wallet will also give true payment freedom, allowing the user to allocate funds within the wallet and pay Service Providers with the Cryptocurrency of their choice.Read more...

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